Heterodox Academy is an association of university professors who are committed to the freedoms of speech and of expression in society and in the academy, and are resisting the censorship, “safe-space”, and “trigger-warning” madness that currently afflicts so many campuses.

The First Amendment reads (in part): “Congress shall make no law…abridging the freedom of speech….” “Abridge” is legally defined as: “…(T)he making of a declaration or count shorter, by taking or severing away some of the substance from it.” The Founders prohibited the government from not just silencing speech – but from doing anything at all to in any way reduce it.